Roy Blunt in ABC This Week interviews for 2022 races

On Education: Student loan forgiveness is monumentally unfair

SEN. ROY BLUNT (R-MO): I just thought it was monumentally unfair to people who didn't go to college because they didn't think they could afford it, unfair to people who paid their loans back, unfair to people who got higher education in an area that the government didn't make loans, and just bad economics. I think it's going to have a long-term devastating effect on a student loan program that worked pretty effectively until the federal government assumed responsibility for that program.

SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (I-VT): Well, he's wrong. 60% of the benefits go to people who were on Pell grants, 87% of the benefits go to people who are making $75,000 a year. I know it is shocking to some Republicans that the government actually, on occasion, does something to benefit working families and low-income people. I don't hear any of these Republicans squawking when we give massive tax breaks to billionaires.

Source: ABC This Week on 2022 Missouri Senate race Aug 28, 2022

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